Dissertations

This is a selection of dissertations I am supervising or have supervised:

  • Asexuality and femininity: the fluid identity of the Living Dolls
  • British  citizenship and diasporic identity: the auto-ethnography of a refugee
  • The role of beta readers in the fan community
  • An auto-ethnographic exploration of affective ‘truth’ and mourning in photography
  • Newsroom gender politics in the fashion magazine Marie Claire
  • The Cult of ‘i’ – Consumer identity-making and the Apple Inc. community
  • A semiotic analysis of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
  • The neoliberal mythology of Anita Roddick
  • Representations of gender and race in Nigerian music videos
  • Mothers and motherhood in the Daily Mail Tweets
  • Hybrid identity in Ang Lee’s films
  • Representations of gender in the Nollywood films White Hunters and Strawberry Babes
  • Queer in China: the life and death of Leslie Cheung
  • An ethnographic analysis of female football fans
  • Neoliberalism and homonormativity in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
  • A discourse analysis of the online Gyaru community
  •  A case study of Idoru fans in China
  • A digital auto-ethnography of raced identity in Battlefield 4 gamers
  • From the intellectual to the cultural entrepreneur in Neoliberal China